ThehostGuy

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1. This is going to sound redundant but school and my “don’t stop reading ’til the book is over” time do not mix! Luckly, I get to skip school Thurs and Fri. to finish. YAY 😉

   Just a survey….
   Say ‘ay’ if school is ruining your pleasure reading moment!…

   AY!!!

2. I got it on Saturday and am still working on it. I’m actually not as impressed with it. I mean, it’s a good book and all, and the idea of souls fascinate me (how can they justify essentially slaughtering whole species? how can they NOT justify helping said species? is the species in question ‘dead’? what makes a person a person, their body, their mind, or someting else?)But, I don’t know. I’m just not into it as much. I read for a few hours, then I’m ready to put it down. Maybe I’ve just been out of sci-fi too long! 😉 (no matter what Stephenie Meyer says, it reads like sci-fi)

3. Ummmm I’d estimate about 8 hours give or take. I had to rush it a bit because I wanted to read it before the kansas book signing. And it was AWESOME. I think I even like it better than Twilight x] yes sir.

4. I’ve had it for about 5 days and I’m only on Chapter 16. I’m a really slow reader though and I graduate on Monday (May 19) so I’ve been busy studying for finals, taking finals, playing the bunny hopping game on orisinal.com, finding out all available information on the Twilight movie available on the interwebz, advertising for Twilight with sidewalk chalk (I’m still waiting for my friend to upload the pic so I can post it on myspace…), and reading The Host all at the same time! XD

5. AY!!!!
   And yeah…I still love Twilight over The Host…

6. It took me about 2 days, but it took my sister, who is a speed reader, about 5 hours. But I kinda tried to read it slower since I didn’t want it to end. I loved it so much!! It was an AMAZING book!!!

7. I PROMISED myself I wouldn’t get it until exams were over!!
   Unfortunately, I have no willpower. I started it yesterday, and read for about 4-5 hours total. then I finished it today after another hour. So, about 5-6 hours. It was AMAZING, and if anyone is worried about how how it compares to Twilight – don’t. It’s completely different, and SO. GOOD.

8. Im in the middle of reading it but so far

   ITS AMAZING!!!

   different from twilight yes but doesn’t make it any less of an amazing book.

9. haha two hours would make someone a computer. But ya, i read it under a day.
   I freaking LOVE it!! Just as good as twilight. Actually…Its hard since they are both GREAT masterpieces, but i think maybe The Host i like better. Much more conflict, and so much more love because of it.

10. It took me exactly 6 days! I read Twilight in 1, but I wasnt as absorbed in The Host as I was with Twilight, though I must say The Host exceeded my expectations!! I WANT A SEQUAL!

11. I took me six days and I am just about as busy as you are. I LOVED it!

    It took my best friend about three days but she was able to read it at work ( I need her job :D).

12. 2 hours?! I wish. It took me about 2 hours to read 100 pages. It was really frustrating because it never takes me that long to read 100 pages! I did end up reading it almost straight through, and it took me about 12 hours, give or take. I had to finish it during school so I’m not sure.

13. I finished it in 2 days, but I read fast, and was reading nonstop, excluding eating and sleeping. My estimate is 15 hours, but it’s not all that accurate… And I didn’t do my homework 😀

14. I haven’t bought it yet…. 🙁
    But I must mention that it’s a really really strange size! What’s up with that? The thing’s huge, and I’m not even talking thick!

15. It took me 2 days =[ It would have taken less if I didn’t have so much homework!Plus school…but I LOVED it!!!!!I don’t think its as good as Twilight though lol.

    I LOVE TWILIGHT!!!

16. i read about 60 pages an hour

    so it took me a little over ten hours 😀

    and they were suhhweeeet

17. I got it about 4 the day it came out, and finished it and 5 ir 6 the next day, with school and and 7 hours of sleep.
    Also, I documented my experience and the singing of the Host signing and posted it on fanfiction for all you didn’t go. the link is :
    www . fanfiction . net/s/4255022/1/ if you want to check it out.

18. Hahaha, yeah, I read it in 3 hours maybe. 🙂 The beginning was slow, and a bit confusing, but I loved it. It’s so strong in the areas that are lacking in Twilight. It’s so good. So So So So good. Hahaha, probably my new favorite book… aside from Twilight/NM/Eclipse, of course. 😉

    and margaret, I totally agree: the book is really strongly sized. Hahaha, it’s like, tall. Maybe that’s cuz we’re just comparing it to the hardcovers of the Twilight series.

19. Oops, I meant, strangely sized. And Amber, I agree with you too: The Host is a lot deeper!! 😀

20. Read The Host in under 2 days. It ROCKS! Hurry up and finish Twilight! How can you restrain yourself to reading it so slowly? You must have incrediable will power.

21. Ha, 2 hours! I wish, but alas it was a school week, and with school comes homework… So I finished it about 4 days(2 hours if I didn’t have school 😉 )

22. I read it in about 4 days. I just hunkered down for a day and read almost the whole thing though on sunday…yes you have to finish the twilight saga first!

23. I got it the day after it came out… and it took me 4 sittings… so four days to finish… I would have had it done faster if I didn’t have school so I wouldn’t need to sleep :\ xD

24. If I didn’t have to work, I would’ve finished it in a day. UNFORTUNATELY, it took me two whopping days to finish it. It’s amazing. I couldn’t put it down. haha. I got yelled at several times by my supervisor for reading it instead of working, too. 😀

25. Um… The Host took me maybe four hours… It was kind of hard to keep track of what time I started and what time I stopped because I was trying to do a group project at the exact same time.

    Don’t worry about not getting the next chapter out right away! =D you deserve a schedule free break for a while especially after finals(though with all you have going on I do think it’s much easier for me to say that then for you to do so). Enjoy the next chapter and have fun at your friend’s graduation party!

26. lol it actually took me a little over four hours 🙂 not including teaching my wonderful twelth graders :)I finished it during the studyhall i supervise… they were all asking why i was all teary, and (not giving anything away) i told them i was reading an amazing book 🙂

27. I honestly and truly was trying to stretch it out. Make it last all the longer. Savor each chapter, and try not to plague myself with FRS (Fast Reader Syndrome. Why yes, I did just make that up).

    I bought it on Friday. I was at approximately page 300 today, when I snapped. I could no longer live in a reality where I tried to slowly read anything by Stephenie Meyer.

    I JUST finished the book (10 minutes ago? Holy Wanda, I am obsessed). It was unequivocally outstanding. Such as anything and everything Mrs. Meyer does, it had the intriguing elegance of Jane Austen, yet the fierce fire of a Stephen King novel. But then again, she emanates her own style flawlessly. Her writing style and superior storytelling ability makes my jaw drop every time I am lucky enough to read her work.

28. I haven’t read The Host yet, it’s way big and I have GTA that has been calling my name now that I’m back from school haha, I bet I’m going more north than you for my cousin’s graduation…Alaska, Ohhhhhhhh!

29. I got The Host on Thursday afternoon and finished it (in tears, I might add) at 4:30am on Friday. I probably would have had it done sooner, but I like reading slower when it’s my first read-through, ’cause I don’t want to miss anything!

30. It took me 4 days to read The Host. I would have finished it a lot sooner, but I have a full-time job, so I couldn’t spend as much time on it as I would have liked. I loved it though, and it’s definitely something I’m going to have to go back and read a few more times… I’m sure there’s a lot of things that I didn’t pick up on the first time through.

31. Unlike Twilight, it took me awhile to get into The Host, so I would read a little, put it down and work on other things, then pick it back up later in the day. Each of the Twilight books took me one 24 hour period to finish, The Host took me about 3 days.

32. It took me 4 days to finish the host but if I wasn’t sick and had school work it would have taken 24 hours(maybe) like all of the twilight books.

33. It took meh about 5 hours XD counting a few interruptions 😛

34. It took me about 4 extensively interrupted hours… 🙂

35. School really sucks! I got it wednesday, started reading thursday (I had to finish New Moon first ^^) and I finished The Host just yesterday evening. I needed SIX days. That was way too long! I hate school!
    The Host is AWESOME! I cried, too. Not as much as I did by New Moon, of course. It’s almost as good as the Twilight Saga. Imagine, Stephenie Meyer wanted to make Ian a bad guy first! LoL

36. Omigosh!! I reeeeally love The Host!! I finished it last week… my friends called me obsessed. I call myself… an INCREDIBLY obsessed reader. They are just too good to put down… i liked it so much it took me about a week to read. =]

    Stephenie Meyer is an incredible writer. What will she come up with next??

37. ..The Host isn’t coming to where I live that fast..I’ve orderd it but it’ll take a LONG time for it to come..I want to read it soooo bad..
    Hope it’s good 🙂
    Greetings from the cold north of Norway…Help me! Can’t wait..

38. I got the ebook because The host isn’t in Spain yet. I’m still reading it but I love it!

39. I havent got it yet. I live in Norway so most likely it’s not going to show up in our library or bookstore here for a while. Impatient as I am I have ordered my copy of the Host from Amazon, but that doesn’t mean I will gett it fast enough, it’s a long way to be shipped and I’m not going to get it until June 10th 🙁

40. *Off topic*

    Wow! I just looked on the time-difference. Where I live, up in the North, the clock is nearly 4 pm. That’s a difference on 7 hours. Wierd.

41. I haven’t finished yet… I’m about half way through. I wish I had all day to sit and read but I work and stuff…

42. 3 days to finish it!
    It was fantastic.
    I cried too. XD But it may have been due to lack of sleep.

43. I started reading it Saturday , late afternoon and was finished by late Monday night. I totally let my kids fend for themselves most of that time. They could have been playing on the freeway and I wouldn’t have known about it. The book is great & I even cried.

44. I got my copy on May 10th and finished it last night >.>

    Great book!

45. I started reading it Saturday , late afternoon and was finished by late Monday night. I totally let my kids fend for themselves most of that time. They could have been playing on the freeway and I wouldn’t have known about it. I did manage to go to work & church so I wasn’t reading uninterrupted, but I tried. The book is great & I even cried.

46. I took me about six hours. I loved it!

47. Read it in less than 48 hours, while sitll doing trivial things like eating and sleeping and spending quality time with my husband so he wouldn’t feel completely ignored. I haven’t pulled an all-nighter since before I got married, but I was up past 3 a.m. at least one night on this one. I love everyone’s excuses for why they couldn’t finish in under 4 hours! LOL :-p I laughed at Jenna’s “pull a Deathly Hallows” phrase–very appropriate. And I am much like Jennifer, in that I like to go slowly and absorb all the details. It does suck you in and won’t let go. I am glad to hear I wasn’t the only one who cried. It was awesome! I still like the Twilight books better, but this is right up there with them. …p.s. hey ‘L.’and ‘Nora’ from Norway–I’m an Aase:-) (my father-in-law is from Stavanger.)

48. 5 1/2 hours!!!! (give or take a little) I have a bad habit of not being able to put a book down after i start it 😉
    And I must say it was written brilliantly!!

49. AHHH! The Host was so good! It took me about a day… I rarely put it down.

50. I read it in three days. I don’t think its fair to compare it to ‘twilight’. They’re entirely different. Its not as fast a read, but its compelling in a different way. I liked the development of the characters, although I think it was pitched wrong. Its not really about three people being in love with only two bodies. It’s more about an alien finding out what its like to be human. Hope you enjoy it.